Is the US presidential race about to get dirty?
The News Agents
Global
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🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Kamala Harris raised a hundred million dollars in the day and a half since Joe Biden announced he wouldn't be standing for re-election.
She has now passed the delegate threshold to stand as the candidate - and as we record no one else has thrown their name into the ring.
Republicans are meanwhile having to accommodate the new reality of having the oldest candidate in the race.
Later, we look at the UK broadcasting landscape with Ofcom regulator Melanie Dawes. Does Ofcom have teeth? And will it use them?
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Producer: Natalie Indge
Video Production: Shane Fennelly
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.5 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Many of you know before I was elected as vice president, before I was elected as United States Senator, |
| 0:19.3 | I was the elected Attorney General. I've mentioned in California. And before that, I was elected as United States Senator, I was the elected Attorney General, as I've |
| 0:21.6 | mentioned in California. |
| 0:22.6 | Before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor. |
| 0:24.6 | In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds. |
| 0:32.6 | Predators who abused women. |
| 0:34.6 | Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. |
| 0:42.3 | So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump's type. |
| 0:48.3 | It was a brilliant line, but this prosecutor also knows how to prosecute a campaign to win the Democratic Party nomination, because it has happened at lightning speed. |
| 1:03.4 | Within 30 hours of Joe Biden announcing that he is pulling out, far from it being a circular firing squad, Kamala Harris has taken the |
| 1:13.1 | crown and done it with some style and gusto. But make no mistake, this campaign is about to get |
| 1:19.8 | dirty, really dirty. They're already calling her names. We'll leave some of that to your imagination, |
| 1:27.1 | but we'll take you through some of the |
| 1:29.2 | extraordinary clips that are surfacing of what they think of Kamala Harris. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:38.6 | The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. And hurricane season hasn't yet arrived in America, but a hurricane has |
| 1:46.6 | blown through Wilmington, Delaware, all the way to Washington and taking in all 50 states at the same |
| 1:53.1 | time. Because in less than two days, Kamala Harris has sewn up the Democratic nomination for president. People were predicting a bloodbath. |
| 2:03.9 | I kind of thought that it would get messy and ugly, instead of which the working the phones, |
| 2:10.7 | the putting pressure on, the twisting arms, the charming of people has worked. And everyone has fallen |
| 2:17.2 | into line. There is a hundred million and everyone has fallen into line. |
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